You can now buy things through ChatGPT with a single click - if you're one of the lucky ones (www.techradar.com)

OpenAI has rolled out Instant Checkout inside the ChatGPT interface, letting U.S. users buy items directly from a conversation. At launch the feature is available to all ChatGPT personal accounts (free, Plus, Pro) but is initially limited to single-item purchases from Etsy; Shopify support and multi-item carts are promised “soon,” along with expanded merchant and regional rollout. Payments use either a card on file or an express card option, and OpenAI says encrypted payment tokens are scoped to specific merchants and amounts. The system runs on the open-source Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), co-developed with Stripe, and OpenAI charges merchants a small fee for completed purchases; company reps also emphasize that Instant Checkout listings won’t get preferential search treatment. For the AI/ML community this is a notable step toward embedding transactional workflows into conversational agents. ACP standardizes how agents initiate and authorize payments and could accelerate merchant integration across billions of chat interactions, while tokenized payments aim to reduce misuse risk. The move highlights new engineering and safety requirements—agent trust boundaries, secure token handling, transaction rollback and fraud detection, and UI/UX for consent—and raises business and regulatory questions about platform gatekeeping, data flows, and monetization. Researchers and practitioners should watch how ACP adoption, agent capabilities, and multi-step commerce flows evolve, since they’ll shape agent design patterns and commerce-oriented ML features.